Other names: anemia, anemia

Determining the concentration of hemoglobin in blood include basic tests and detected for various reasons. Hemoglobin is the red pigment of blood contained in red blood cells and carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.

Lack of hemoglobin and thus the shortage of red blood cells is called anemia or anemia. May be symptom-free and comes at it from a random laboratory testing for other problems, a higher degree of anemia is already reflected increased fatigue, pallor, zadýcháváním to tinnitus, vertigo.

Causes lack of hemoglobin and red blood cells can be many and are classified into conditions in which increased losses occur or premature failure cell and to conditions in which the production of red cells.

The most common cause of anemia is a deficiency of iron, red blood cell count is also reduced in various chronic inflammations, chronic blood loss, e.g., gastric ulcer, cells may also be increased uptake in the spleen at various congenital anomalies of blood or it may start to destroy their own immune system.

There are also genetic disorders of hemoglobin production, talassemia, which manifest differently severe anemia according to type of disease. Cause first orientation determined from blood picture, depending on whether they are cells in size or altered in shape, and further examinations. Heal should then be the root cause of lack of hemoglobin.